Pine Forest Health and Rehabilitation

Pine Forest Health and Rehabilitation is a 120-bed skilled nursing facility at 1116 Forest Avenue, Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, operated by William Orand Jr. as a privately owned facility. The nursing home offers memory care and rehabilitation services with individualized care plans, though nursing hours of 2 hours 41 minutes per resident per day fall below standard benchmarks for facilities of comparable size and acuity. Occupancy stands at 73 percent, lower than Mississippi’s state average of 82.3 percent.

The facility does not accept Medicare or Medicaid, serving only private-pay residents.

Pine Forest’s regulatory record has deteriorated sharply in 2025. A December 9, 2025 complaint investigation substantiated an actual-harm deficiency (F 0689) stemming from a preventable safety failure on November 3, 2025. While loading a wheelchair-dependent resident onto the facility van’s liftgate for transport to dialysis, certified nursing aide #3 failed to lock both wheels of the wheelchair. As the platform was elevated, the wheelchair rolled backward off the lift and the resident fell onto the concrete driveway below.

The resident sustained a fractured right scapula and multiple rib fractures across ribs 3 through 8, requiring hospitalization. The facility’s Van Operation Standard policy explicitly mandates locking wheelchair brakes before lift operation; the aide’s failure to follow this basic procedure violated established protocol. The aide was terminated following the incident.

Two months earlier, on September 4, 2025, a separate complaint investigation cited the facility for two minimal-harm deficiencies related to activity engagement. Deficiency F 0656 documented that the facility failed to implement care plans for two of two sampled residents regarding structured activities; deficiency F 0679 found the facility failed to provide activities designed to meet residents’ physical and mental needs. State surveyors observed both residents sitting inactive in the dayroom for hours without access to planned activities, including during times when facility-wide activities were occurring. The Activities Director acknowledged the oversight, while the Director of Nursing conceded a lack of staff follow-through on activity interventions outlined in residents’ care plans.

Mississippi’s Department of Health oversees licensing.

Families should ask about safety and supervision practices following the November 2025 fall incident, corrective measures taken to ensure wheelchair-transport procedures are followed.

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